Tuesday, March 13, 2012

8:17 AM

After completing its first two rounds of review, the GAB has counted more than 900,000 signatures submitted in the recall attempt against Gov. Scott Walker and 800,000 against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.

That's short of the number initially claimed by anti-Walker forces. Recall organizers originally claimed they had submitted 1 million signatures seeking Walker’s recall, almost twice the 540,208 needed to trigger an election.

The GAB says it counted 931,042 in the petitions submitted against Walker and has so far stricken 25,495, leaving 905,547.

For Kleefisch, 842,860 were originally submitted and 29,125 stricken, leaving 813,735.

Following the GAB meeting yesterday, the next step is a hearing tomorrow in Dane Co. court affecting the timetable for recall elections against Walker, Kleefisch and four GOP state senators.